A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
Gordon Harker
as Capt. Barley
Judy Gunn
as Ethel Smedley
Jack Hawkins
as Lt. Seton Boyne
George Carney
as Tom Codd
Margaret Rutherford
as Mrs. Baldwin
Ronald Shiner
as Augustus
Michael Shepley
as Herbert Manners
Margaret Yarde
as Mrs. Porton
Sebastian Smith
as Maj. Smedley
Margaret Scudamore
as Mrs. Susan Smedley
Frank Bertram
as John Dibbs
Ann Wemyss
as Lucy Dallas